Archive for the ‘Internet Explorer’ Category

Yoono

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Yoono is a plugin which has been around for a couple years now and I’ve seen it both featured in the Firefox plugin directory and reviewed on a number of other websites. I guess the best way to describe it is as the Flock sidebar for Firefox, however with support for more social networks and [...]

Google Chrome Getting Extensions Soon

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

A couple weeks ago I posted that a developer had already discovered it was possible to run Firefox GreaseMonkey Scripts in Google Chrome and released Grease Metal to do just that.
InformationWeek announced today that according to Google Chrome Engineer Ojan Vafai the idea is for the browser to support both scripts and extensions:
"There’s two different [...]

TinyURL IE8 Accelerator

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Accelerators in Internet Explorer 8 are a great new feature, or will be if they become widely adopted.
So far they’re limited to a few Microsoft defaults and a couple others from Google, Wikipedia and Dictionary.com.
Silverlight programmer Tim decided to create an accelerator for TinyURL, which was something I was actually wishing for only a couple [...]

Me.Dium - Be Social

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

This is a post from Extendably’s new regular author Angelo. Each week he will be reviewing individual Firefox extensions.

The social web is a result of everyone’s desire to be connected instantly with the whole world, and we all seem to have caught the bug. Websites like Twitter, Plurk and Jaiku allow us to make a quick [...]

Today’s News From Around the Web

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Some of the latest extension-based news from around the blogosphere:

Hack WordPress WordPress Plugin: Display your comment count to your readers
A Feedburner-like chicklet to display your total blog comment count
LifeHacker Battle of the Must-Have Firefox Extensions
16 extensions to choose from, vote for your favourite.

Photosynth released as public browser plugin

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Forget Aero, forget the iPhone and and forget multi-touch technology… Photosynth is hands-down the coolest end-user product I’ve seen in years.
I say that because amazing prototypes and services come out of companies and research labs on a regular basis, but all too often they never reach the light of day again… or if they [...]

The StumbleUpon Toolbar

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Digg has had its fair number of controversies over the last few years as it moved from a technology focused website to a mainstream news site. Controversy isn’t a bad thing, in fact it just proves that people care enough to complain.
Whatever the case, Digg has always been about the ‘front page’. Very recently [...]